Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differences between groups were evaluated by the log-rank test . |
| 2 | Differences between groups were calculated with the two tailed Student 's t test ; p<0.05 was considered significant . |
| 3 | Comparisons between groups were performed with the Wilcoxon test for unpaired data and the Fisher test . |
| 4 | Statistical differences between groups were estimated with the Mann-Whitney U test and correlation coefficients calculated with the Spearman rank test for non-parametric data . |
| 5 | The statistical significance of differences between groups was assessed by the Mann-Whitney U test . |
| 6 | A potential difficulty for solicitors was highlighted by the case of Hudgell Yeates & Co v Watson [ 1978 ] QB 451 when solicitors attempted to recover their costs from a client by action . |
| 7 | The proposals for provinces were referred to the newly established Royal Commission on the Constitution , while the proposals for local councils were thought to add too much extra work to the already formidable task of local government reorganisation . |
| 8 | It is ringed by villages known as the ‘ seven towns ’ , which for centuries were sustained by the rights of common they enjoyed upon Otmoor 's lush pastures . |
| 9 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 10 | The relationships between variables were evaluated by the simple correlation coefficient and a multiple regression analysis . |
| 11 | Picasso 's work was first seen in Germany in 1909 at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich , and paintings by many of the other painters subsequently known as Cubists were shown at the second exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung in Munich in 1910 . |
| 12 | In 1990 , standard-setting for companies was changed by the establishment of the Financial Reporting Council , the Accounting Standards Board and the Review Panel . |
| 13 | Strict segregation had held firm for years and , as in boxing , a world series for blacks was organized in the 1920s . |
| 14 | A variety of opinions were aired on the matter by the politicians present , and there seemed to be a definite acknowledgement that at least some of those present held shares in Anglo United , the mother company of IBM . |
| 15 | A variety of reasons were proffered for the long delay in setting the seal on a deal but drummer Gary Murdoch maintains that ‘ we 've had a string of managers who did n't really know their job ’ . |
| 16 | A lot of coins were thrown into the guitar case and some of them were pounds . |
| 17 | Nearly 600 tons of flagstones were dropped during the operation : 300 tons along the Border Ridge near Blindburn in the Northumberland National Park ; 60 tons in Teesdale near Cauldron Snout and Bleabeck Force ; 65 tons at Calderdale near Longfield Common and 135 tons near Bleaklow in the peak National Park . |
| 18 | This line of authorities was overruled by the House of Lords in Sutcliffe v Thackrah [ 1974 ] AC 727 : see 14.4 . |
| 19 | Even baskets of oddments were placed on the pavement , a practice which would be frowned on today , but the footpaths were kept spotlessly clean by each trader . |
| 20 | The second pair of cleavages was associated with the industrial revolution : one was linked to the division between town and country ( or agricultural and manufacturing interests ) ; the other concerned the growing division between employers and workers ( the class divide ) . |
| 21 | The present-day National Union of Seamen was founded on the north east coast , which was also a major centre for the Seamen 's Reform Movement which recaptured the union for the rank-and-file in the mid-1960s . |
| 22 | In the nineteenth century the stagnant waters of cities were haunted by the shadow of cholera . |
| 23 | A curfew was imposed , archers armed with loaded arbalests patrolled the streets and thick webs of chains were dragged across the entrances to the main thoroughfares . |
| 24 | It can be very difficult to be sure of why a hoard of objects was buried in the ground . |
| 25 | If this step showed a significant difference for the variable examined , then pairs of subgroups were examined by the Newman-Keuls post hoc test . |
| 26 | Certainly , a vast number of Hurricanes were sent to the USSR from 1941 onwards — over 3,000 . |
| 27 | More than 95pc of calls were answered within the government 's deadline of 19 minutes but it was inevitable that a handful would cause problems . |
| 28 | Major sets of proposals were submitted by the EC on Sept. 25-26 and by the USA on Oct. 25-26 . |
| 29 | First , a number of rules were specified about the use of rewards and punishers and it was suggested that a reward ‘ menu ’ be drawn up for each intervention in order that the child does not become satiated by a single type of reward which could then lose its reinforcing properties . |
| 30 | Three pairs of oyster-catchers were sighted around the main region and a total of 13 common sandpipers and a flight of 18 turnstones , most colourful birds and on passage at this time when they occur regularly at Abberton . |